STOCKTON, Calif. — Fire crews are battling a large fire at a tomato processing plant in Stockton.
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BILLINGS, Mont. — Americans settled for small processions and online tributes instead of parades Monday as they observed Memorial Day in the shadow of the pandemic, which forced communities to honor the nation’s military dead with modest, more subdued ceremonies that also remembered those lo…
Despite COVID-19 concerns, people in Bakersfield found a variety of ways to commemorate Memorial Day.
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Bakersfield National Cemetery held a Memorial Day weekend ceremony Saturday. The private event took place at 8 a.m. It featured the placing of a special wreath, lowering the main flag to half-staff, a rifle volley and buglers playing taps.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two astronauts who will end a nine-year launch drought for NASA arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, exactly one week before their historic SpaceX flight.
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The M Street Navigation Center will open to homeless people on Thursday. It is located at 2900 M St. in Bakersfield.
Instead of the traditional graduation ceremony, Garces Memorial High School seniors buckled up Tuesday for one final cruise as students through campus, turning out to be an even more memorable experience for the 109 graduates.
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Fuzzy Owen, who served as Merle Haggard's road manager, has died.
Local outpouring for first responders and hospital staff was on display again Monday, when Feghali Foods and Little Caesars teamed up to deliver pizzas to employees of Adventist Health Bakersfield.
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Alex Garzaro leads a seven-day at-home workout program consisting of 20-minute workouts utilizing a combination of dumbbell, bodyweight and cardio exercises.
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LONDON — Europe marked the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces in low-key fashion Friday because of coronavirus lockdown restrictions across the continent.
Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services has teamed up with local art group Creative Crossing to transform parts of the Oleander neighborhood into chalk masterpieces for Mental Health Awareness Month. On Thursday, artists with Creative Crossings designed and created 16 separate chalk mur…
The poppy fields in Gorman could dry up soon with a heat wave expected to hit Southern California in the coming days. Temperatures could reach triple digits in Bakersfield this weekend, before dropping back into the lower-80s next week.
The rally was organized by the Kern Liberty Coalition and took place in front of the Kern County Administrative Center and along Truxtun Avenue. Chad Vegas, one of the rally’s organizers and a pastor at Sovereign Grace Church of Bakersfield, said the rally was originally supposed to be a cal…
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People around Kern County have used their time during the coronavirus quarantine to make home improvements and repairs.
SACRAMENTO — Californians weary of stay-at-home orders that have left millions unemployed staged displays of defiance Friday, with hundreds of flag-waving protesters gathering at the Capitol and along a famed Southern California beach, while a sparsely populated county on the Oregon border a…
About 150 to 200 people gathered outside Bakersfield City Hall Friday to protest the statewide economic shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
California Aeronautical University performed a flyover across Bakersfield Thursday to honor essential workers and community spirit displayed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event took place from noon to 12:30 p.m., with five aircraft taking flight over several neighborhoods, shopping cente…
Bakersfield resident Spencer Lawrence attempted to run a marathon around the 17th Place Townhomes apartment complex Wednesday morning. Lawrence did the run in hopes of bringing some entertainment to those self isolating in the downtown complex, following the cancellation of the Bakersfield M…
Joy is visible during the pandemic, just not with the usual, recognizable cues.
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Roger Hewson, 69, and his son Holland Hewson test stock outboard racing boats on Lake Ming Thursday afternoon. The Hewsons are from Huntington Beach and Roger is a former national champion in the sport. The pair are usually here in March for the start of the racing season.
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TEHRAN, Iran — On the rooftop terrace of her Tehran apartment building, 28-year-old Mojgan Hosseini's fingers pluck the strings of her qanun, an ancient stringed instrument, bringing life to an Iranian capital stilled by the coronavirus.
United Domestic Workers handed out Personal Protective Equipment to in-home workers who care for patients with possible COVID-19 cases. The drive-thru pick up was held at the UDW office at 2301 24th Street.
The McFarland Festival Committee, an arm of the McFarland Recreation and Park District, had 700 masks to give away to local residents Tuesday afternoon. Those who went to the drive-thru operation set up in the park district's parking lot were offered two masks per vehicle.
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CHATSWORTH, Ga. — Storms that killed more than 30 people in the Southeast, piling fresh misery atop a pandemic, spread across the eastern United States on Monday, leaving more than 1 million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides.
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VATICAN CITY — A pair of white-coated doctors who care for coronavirus patients participated in a torch-lit Good Friday procession, watched over by Pope Francis and held in a hauntingly nearly empty St. Peter's Square instead of at Rome's Colosseum because of the safety measures aimed at con…
NEW YORK — For centuries, on the first and second nights of the Jewish holiday of Passover, the youngest child has asked his or her elders, “Why is this night different from all others?”
Sikh Riders of America has teamed with RiverLakes Church and Gurdwara Angad Darbar temple to make face shields for Bakersfield first responders. The shields are being made Thursday at the Sikh temple, located on Stine Road in west Bakersfield. According to a news release, the face shields ca…
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